Opinion

by Charlie Tatham Alex Muir’s Grit (Liberal) votes balanced Charlie Hearn’s Tory votes. The roads were plugged with snow; the only way to get to Jackson’s polling booth was through the fields. It was a cold, blizzardy day in Oxford county.

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If Powell River residents are fed up with escalating ferry fares, now is the time to let voices be heard. BC Ferry Commissioner Martin Crilly has given preliminary approval to rate increases for the next four years.

MP support proves successful In 2003, logging contractors received funds from the BC Forest Revitalization Trust in exchange for the loss of their logging contracts resulting from the implementation of the Forest Revitalization Act .

By Glenn Nelles In my original rant to the Peak editor a year or more ago my sole interest was to express my opinion that what this town needed was a new library.

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City of Powell River officials won’t be able to dodge, much longer, the responsibility for clearing up old landfill sites.

Some people think it’s unnecessary. Others believe it wastes money. Still others think it will change little. Some don’t even know it’s happening.

Treaty turmoil Sincere congratulations appear to be in order to Tla’Amin (Sliammon) First Nation for having successfully forced the Harper regime to deal with their treaty [“Federal minister says he is committed to initialling treaty,” March 23].

by Rob Higgin Two questions about local currency: First, what backs a local currency? And second, how does it fit in? Before answering the first, we need to be very clear about what backs conventional money, and that boils down to, what are people wi